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We are calling on the tech community to help cities and communities in developing countries build resilience to climate change and disaster — through disruptive technology.

About the Challenge

Although India has made remarkable progress in saving lives through proactive disaster preparedness and risk reduction, India is also looking at building greater resilience of its communities and infrastructure to extreme events through the use of emerging technologies.

Through consultations with interested government partners, five thematic key challenges have been identified for tech solutions:

Risk financing

Benefits for Innovators

Selected innovators will receive support and grant funding to pilot their tech innovations in the Indian market alongside interested government partners, with the ultimate goal of wider commercial deployment of the technology to deliver sustainable impact.

The challenge provides support throughout the market-entry and tech transfer process for both innovators and government partners, starting from identification of needs, through finding, evaluating and matching technologies, to field testing and beyond.

The program mitigates financial and operational risks associated with market entry for innovators and reduces adoption risks for government.

The challenge offers access to Indian Disaster Management Agencies that are addressing these needs and a pool of funding to support immediate piloting of matched solutions.

Be part of "Tech Investments for Good," a growing tech group that aims to respond to similar resilience challenges in other WBG projects.

Why India Needs Resilience Solutions

2%

GDP lost due to disasters

12%

central government’s revenue is lost due to disasters

$1T

invested in climate-smart and resilient infrastructure, and systems by 2025

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More About TechEmerge Resilience India

The World Bank Group (WBG) is partnering with CES to launch a global challenge for tech innovators interested in bringing their solutions to emerging markets to help states, cities and communities reduce — and build their resilience to — climate and disaster risks.

Although India has made remarkable progress in saving lives through proactive disaster preparedness and risk reduction, India is also looking at building greater resilience of its communities and infrastructure to extreme events through the use of emerging technologies.